LOS ANGELES — Scientists say there may be hot springs bubbling beneath the icy surface of a tiny Saturn moon.

If confirmed, it would make the moon Enceladus the only other known body in the solar system besides Earth where hot water and rocks interact underground.

Such activity would also make the moon an even more attractive place in the hunt for microbial life.

The latest evidence comes from Cassini, a NASA-European Space Agency spacecraft that’s exploring Saturn and its numerous moons from orbit. The spacecraft previously uncovered an underground ocean and a giant plume of gas and ice streaming from cracks in the south polar region.